How To Maximize Rifle Accuracy, with Ray Saft
Backcountry Hunting Podcast
Joseph von Benedikt
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Achieving top-notch accuracy with your hunting rifle requires attention to the smallest details. Here, we're joined by Ray Saft, owner of Saft Custom Gunsmithing in Anchorage, Alaska, to discuss the hidden but essential elements of putting together a precision hunting rifle. We talk best actions, barrels, stocks, and of course, cartridges. Tune in—you'll want to hear Ray's opinion on the .300 Win Mag and the 6.8 Western! ENJOY!
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| 0:00.0 | Accurizing your rifle or building a hyper-accurate custom rifle is actually a really big popular topic today. |
| 0:08.4 | I did an episode a few months ago with my friend Justin Linenbach of Kinport Peak Rifles on how to |
| 0:15.5 | Accurize Your Rifle, right? Actually, that published like a year and a half ago on the audio channel, but we did |
| 0:22.4 | the YouTube version just a couple months ago, and it went gangbusters. So I thought if people |
| 0:28.5 | want to hear about that sort of thing, I should bring another true honest to goodness precision |
| 0:35.0 | gunsmith on the show. And let's talk about accurate rifles. |
| 0:38.3 | Welcome Ray Saft, |
| 0:39.7 | the Saft Custom Gunsmithing in Anchorage, Alaska. |
| 0:42.4 | Good to have you back, my friend. |
| 0:44.7 | Hey, I really think you're going to have a good conversation here. |
| 0:48.0 | You know, my favorite thing, or I should say, |
| 0:50.7 | what I missed most about gunsmithing school was I didn't get to talk to other people |
| 0:57.3 | who know more about guns than I do. And so I'm really looking forward to our chat today. |
| 1:03.9 | You know, I experienced the same thing when I went from working in-house as a true, you know, |
| 1:10.2 | I almost said office-bound editor, but I was an editor-in-chief |
| 1:14.2 | of shooting times for four years, and then I transitioned to writing full-time. Living wherever I |
| 1:20.4 | wanted, back in the Rocky Mountains is a beautiful thing, but I missed the same thing you mentioned, |
| 1:25.3 | just swinging into somebody else's office to ask their opinion |
| 1:29.2 | about a problem or a new concept that was coming through the industry or whatever. There's a lot |
| 1:36.1 | of synergy to be had in rubbing shoulders with other, shall we say, experts in your field of |
| 1:42.3 | passion, isn't there? |
| 1:44.7 | Absolutely. |
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